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We have entered the age of the “megatall” skyscraper.
The first megatall tower — a building that soars over 2,000 feet into the air — opened more than a decade ago, according to Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). It was the Burj Khalifa, and it set astounding records at 2,722 feet tall or over half a mile high.
But come 2018, a new building will rise more than 550 feet taller than the Khalifa.
And the CTBUH predicts that buildings will just keep getting taller. There may even be a kilometer-tall building (that’s 3,280 feet) by the end of this decade.
We rounded up a list of some of the tallest buildings that are currently under construction, according to CTBUH. All of them will be finished by 2020, and four of them are more than 2,000 feet tall.
Needless to say, the skylines of the future will look a lot different.
